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# Re: [wish list]: perl stuff

- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:52:18 PDT
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    At 09:44 AM 8/9/96 PDT, Quinn wrote:
    ><ONE>
    >It would be cool to have some of the anti-statements of Perl, such as
    >"unless" (if-not), and "until" (while-not), because '!' just looks real ugly
    >beside some things.

    I'd spend hours trying to figure out code that looks like this!  This is a
    shouldn't-do.

    ><TWO>
    >        "blah" if (foo);

    NICE one-liner.

    ><A-ONE TWO THREE FOUR!>
    >        if (foo in [5..8])

    Definitely easier... Although it's prolly not, it /looks/ more efficent :)
    This is a should-do.

    ><SPEAKING OF WHICH...>
    >        "bar" in "foobarbaz"

    I'd say I wish for this statement, on average, about 25 hours a day, 8 days
    a week, 33 days a month, 13 months a year ...

    This is a must-do.

    >I suppose that could break some ruthlessly !d verbs which use "in" both to
    >check for type LIST and for membership, though.

    Whoever writes verbs like that disserves to have a few petty bugs to fix.

    This is a must-do (must do, meaning, we must bug ruthless !d coders)

    ><UM...>

    Yeah, me too.

    >That's all for now.  Just more cosmetic suggestions from Quinn.  Oh, and
    >remember real comments.  Real comments would rock.  Real comments RULE.  /*
    >ROCK AND RULE!! */

      /* Hey, that's great.  Besides the realness of it, it adds a nice       */
     /* destinction between the help system's "comments";, which are evaled, */
    /* and maybe programmers' notes or in-db parsing info.                  */

    - Kipp
    http://radioactivo.com.mx/~paradigm

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